We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGH
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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